Miguel BERROCAL (1933-2006) Siextasis, 1976, Puzzle Variation on the theme of Hommage à Picasso, sculpture, 180/2000, bronze, accompanied by booklet. Base with beam shape in IPN profile, in blued steel (with black steel finish) and support element in polished brass. Note from the "Fundación Escultor Berrocal" foundation: SIEXTASIS, an original creation by BERROCAL, evokes the genius of PICASSO, already celebrated by the monumental sculpture "HOMMAGE A PICASSO", which was commissioned by the city of Malaga on the occasion of his 90th birthday, and exhibited for the first time in Paris at the Champs-Elysées roundabout in 1976. "A reclining woman with a heart-shaped face, the compact central core of the sculpture, to which the cylindrical volumes surrounding her anthropomorphic form lead. These volumes or logarithmic curves grow directly out of the Spanish soil like roots. They draw the sap of inspiration from it and carry it to the heart. But the heart face is actually a broken heart, formed by a double profile, that of an embracing couple, a symbol dear to Picasso and frequent in his work." This is how BERROCAL describes the "HOMAGE TO PICASSO". SIEXTASIS, in the same formal terms, translates the same inspiration on an individual scale and for our everyday environment. BERROCAL's creative wealth is concentrated here in a luxurious interlacing of bronze, each sculpted piece of which is a work of art in its own right, and which, when joined together, contributes to this mysterious golden symphony, a poetic evocation of Spanish culture and land. PICASSO-BERROCAL, two names united by creation in this work that symbolises eternal Spain.